Helicopter and Vehicle HDR - My first tries

[Razor61]

Thought i would try my hand at some HDR this afternoon....

The results i like a lot, but they may be overdone a little to some peoples taste... as i have not done 'slight' HDR but quite a bit... although i think they came out pretty well, i'm particularly fond of the Merlin shot.

Comments very welcome as it's the first time i have "properly" done it.... (done a few over the years but not postable).

First off...

Merlin HC.3 of 28 Squadron in confined area training....

http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/razorsixone/IMG_8594-HDR.jpg

RAF Seaking HAS3A at RNAS Yeovilton

http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/razorsixone/IMG_0677-VLN_230108-HDR.jpg

Army Air Corps Apache AH.1 about to hot refuel from a FRP during Ex Pashtun Rat 10-1

http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/razorsixone/IMG_6264-1024-HDR.jpg

Royal Navy Seaking HC.4 "Commando" coming in to the FRP for a hot refuel with a heavy snow shower in the distance

http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/razorsixone/IMG_6327-1024-HDR.jpg

RAF Chinook HC.2 outbound from the FRP

http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/razorsixone/IMG_6524-1024-HDR.jpg

Army Air Corps Apache AH.1 inbound to the FRP for a hot refuel

http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/razorsixone/IMG_6537-1024-HDR.jpg

Plus a vehicle.... Oshkosh HET (Heavy Equipment Transporter) of the British Army. This transports the Challenger 2 MBT with a low loader.

http://i833.photobucket.com/albums/zz256/razorsixone/IMG_6176-1024-HDR.jpg


Hope you like them as much as i do.

[TTk]

Excellent HDR's for me they are just right, hard to pick a fav' but I do like #3 and the last one, very nice well done look forward to seeing some more.;)

[tomd]

This is a great set. Thanks for posting them. Amazing!

[Keith R]

Normally I hate HDR - it's too often used as an alternative to a well executed image ("fairy dust" to supposedly make up for a poor picture) - but these work extremely well because they're good images, with subject matter that lends itself to this kind of processing.

Not sure about the Oshkosh, but the Merlin, first Apache, RN Sea King and Chinook are excellent - they're not too "smoothed out", which the Oshkosh and the other choppers are, to my taste.

[-AP-]

Very, Very Nice..!! Well done. I like every one of them...
HDR is so fitting for those images..

[Loodachris]

Great series #4 is a awesome shot!

[IMARLOW]

Thwy have all turned out well.
Best of the bunch for me though are No2 and the last one.
Cracking set.

[Crappymonkey]

Wow great shots. I love #1 with the man standing on the side.

[ogre1231]

I really like the seaking and the merlin!

[PhotosGuy]

Pretty nice work, color & density wise! Love #1.
#2 doesn't look sharp.
#3 has a HDR halo.
#4-5 have halos, probably from over sharpening.

[Cdellama]

Cool set. #4, 5 and 6 are my favorites :cool:

[Gizmo1985]

good stuff, love me all.

[SK6]

how are you doing HDR with action stuff?

[Razor61]

Really appreciate the comments. Didn't know if people would like them or not but this has spurred me on to do more.

SK6,
You can do HDR with single images (RAW or JPEG) and use Photoshop to under expose and over expose (-1 and +1) to get three images.
You then import these three (underexposed, normal and overexposed) into Photomatix and generate HDR followed by Tone Mapping.
You then use Tone Mapping to get this desired effect (to what your taste is).
Then import it back to Photoshop and touch up / reduce noise (which is created by tone mapping).

It's a lot of fiddling around to begin with but once you have done your first image you can save the settings for the next... and change if required.

[blackhawk]

Really appreciate the comments. Didn't know if people would like them or not but this has spurred me on to do more.

SK6,
You can do HDR with single images (RAW or JPEG) and use Photoshop to under expose and over expose (-1 and +1) to get three images.
You then import these three (underexposed, normal and overexposed) into Photomatix and generate HDR followed by Tone Mapping.
You then use Tone Mapping to get this desired effect (to what your taste is).
Then import it back to Photoshop and touch up / reduce noise (which is created by tone mapping).

It's a lot of fiddling around to begin with but once you have done your first image you can save the settings for the next... and change if required.

Outstanding imaging and technique! :cool::cool:
#1! :cool:
I wuv warbirds!
Thanks for the sharing the images and your methods. bw!

[jacktompson]

How do you do that? its amazing! can you help!

[iceman1]

Great shots and processing.

[GrizzlyMan]

Very nice shots and HDR....

[harley_jeff]

Very nice, especially for your first tries.

[professorman]

Really appreciate the comments. Didn't know if people would like them or not but this has spurred me on to do more.

SK6,
You can do HDR with single images (RAW or JPEG) and use Photoshop to under expose and over expose (-1 and +1) to get three images.
You then import these three (underexposed, normal and overexposed) into Photomatix and generate HDR followed by Tone Mapping.
You then use Tone Mapping to get this desired effect (to what your taste is).
Then import it back to Photoshop and touch up / reduce noise (which is created by tone mapping).

It's a lot of fiddling around to begin with but once you have done your first image you can save the settings for the next... and change if required.

Cool. I was about to ask how you got off 3 bracketed shots of these.

[TheBigDog]

very very nice!

[JWright]

Excellent work! I especially like the Apache shots, but then I built them...

[jacktompson]

how in the world do you get them like that ?